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The release schedule for 2019 and beyond is now shaping up.
Final mixes for Deniz Tek’s new album are being completed by Bob Brown at his Ships In studio in Billings. More details about this new album will be announced shortly.

Donovan’s Brain are working on five new songs for a split albbum to be released in Australia and worldwide via Career Records. This is the first project of a collaboration which should result in an expanded Career Records operation. Again more details to follow soon. One new song has been written for this album. Four others have been drawn from the pool of songs earmarked for the next two Brain albums.

The Career Record Shop will have links to our Australian partner’s mail order. The upcoming releases will be offered locally in the US and Australia. This will be the first time in 15 years that Career will have Australian distribution. We hope to have product in Australian shops by the end of summer.

Kasumuen Records Australia and Career Records USA are excited to annonunce a trans-Pacific collaboration. These two forward looking labels will be working together on selected releases which will carry both the Career and Kasumuen name. These releases will be available in Australia and the US via the labels and their respective networks, as well as in Europe and Asia via distributors.

Career Records was founded in 2002 by Ron Sanchez and Deniz Tek as an outlet for their music, productions and selected artists. Its artist roster includes: Deniz Tek, Donovan’s Brain, Roy Loney And The Long Shots, The Nomads, Penny Ikinger, Angie Pepper, Scott Morgan and The Plaintiffs.

Kasumuen Records was founded in 2014 with a similar outlook. Its artist releases include: The Sand Pebbles, Xylouris/White. Fraudband. Baby 8, New Rock Syndicate, Paul Kidney Experience and Powerline Sneakers

The first Career-Kasumuen (or Kasumuen-Career, which ever sounds best) release will be a Donovan’s Brain – Fraudband split album. Vinyl only, it features five new songs by each band plus additional unreleased material via download card included.

Release date is penciled in for August 16th 2019, with two more co-releases scheduled, details to be announced when finalised.

Visit the Career Records Shop for some great deals.
We have a few copies of Deniz Tek’s album Mean Old Twister on vinyl and CD which are available as a nice priced bundle with a copy of Den’s new album Lost For Words.

Donovan’s Brain new box set can is bundled several different ways with other Brain matter. All at great savings.

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Coming in the next few weeks is Hit The Hay Vol 10, a colleciton of Power Pop bands on the Swedish Sound Asleep label. We put together a new song, The Best Mistake for this release. A few weeks ago Tom Dyer at Green Monkey asked if we could contribute to a Christmas Holiday charity compilation. I suggested we finish up one of the new songs Two Old Cats. Kris Hughes offered to rewrite the lyircs and sing it. The new song is called Gray Whiskers (Winter Cats). The song was mixed as soon as Bobby Sutliff’s guitar solo was added. More news about this as soon as known.

The third release is a collection of Montana bands from the 70s and 80s on the Lost Sounds label run by Dave Martens. This is the follow up to the 60s collection Long Time Coming. This new release is the companion to a documentary filmed by Kirk Leclaire. Donovan’s Brain fall into this time frame, though most of our recordings are from the 90s. Band members Ron Sanchez, Kels Koch and Jim Kehoe were interviewed for the film. Don’t Thank Me from Tiny Crustacean Light Show will be remixed for this release. A remixed, remodeled release of Tiny Crust is penciled in on the Career release schedule for 2020. Work on that will continue as time allows. A new album is the primary focus right now.

Deniz Tek’s new album, Lost For Words will be released September 1st, 2018. Vinyl and CD are available now for order.

Visit the Career Records Shop now.